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RedEnchilada
formerly RedEchidna
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23rd May, 2010 at 13:02:51 -
pff, I gave up on waiting for it and just bought the original PS1 version from a game shop a few towns away. Came with the manual and everything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYrSD35vHo4
woooooooooooooooooaah maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
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OMC
What a goofball
Registered
21/05/2007
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23rd May, 2010 at 13:57:45 -
Here's a question--if you buy the game and own it, and then use that tool that puts it on the PSP, are you still doing something wrong since it's a breach of the user agreement (Somewhere, I'm sure custom firmware isn't allowed, and the emulator was ripped from another game)?
I guess it doesn't matter though, because you'd be waiting for a lot of updates to be able to get back on the PSN. And you wouldn't want that.
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Phredreeke
Don't listen to this idiot
Registered
03/08/2002
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23rd May, 2010 at 16:55:40 -
I'm pretty sure the emulator is stored in firmware. While copyrighted, the firmware is freely distributed by Sony on their network and on their website. I don't see anything wrong with modifying software that Sony gives away for FREE. Distributing in its complete modified state would be illegal though, better to just create a program to patch an official FW to do what you want. (homebrewers have done the same to the wii system menu, to disable region checks and bypassing the retarded health warning, not sure if PSP CFW works the same way)
- Ok, you must admit that was the most creative cussing this site have ever seen -
Make some more box arts damnit!
http://create-games.com/forum_post.asp?id=285363
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UrbanMonk
BRING BACK MITCH
Registered
07/07/2008
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23rd May, 2010 at 18:30:12 -
Originally Posted by OldManClayton
Here's a question--if you buy the game and own it, and then use that tool that puts it on the PSP, are you still doing something wrong since it's a breach of the user agreement (Somewhere, I'm sure custom firmware isn't allowed, and the emulator was ripped from another game)?
Of course sony doesn't want people to put custom firmware on their psp's, if they wanted that they would sell it preinstalled. 
Fact is, if you own the device you can do anything you want with it. It's not modifying the device that's illegal, it's installing games that you have not purchased.
If you already own the game then modifying your psp to run it is completely legal, no matter how unrecommended it is by sony.
EDIT: oh yeah, and Phredreeke is right. The custom fireware installer is just a patch, it contains no copyrighted code. Which is why sony can't do anything about it.
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OMC
What a goofball
Registered
21/05/2007
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23rd May, 2010 at 18:54:15 -
It's no question whether Sony wants you to do it. 
According to this: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/08/modder-arrest-a-reminder-that-most-console-hacks-are-illegal.ars Even if you don't intend to run cracked software on it, modifying the software in such a way that allows it is still breaking the law.
Not that you'll get busted for it.
I wasn't concerned with the legal implications. I was thinking about breaking an agreement to use that emulator without having obtained it legally and that being okay. I looked into it, and it requires a "Base.pbp", which is undoubtedly obtained from a bought PSP-PS1 game, not the PSP's firmware. That emulator is copyrighted code.
At any rate, Jon said he wasn't going to mod to get it.
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UrbanMonk
BRING BACK MITCH
Registered
07/07/2008
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23rd May, 2010 at 21:18:17 -
Well the original psp had the ability to run homebrew out-the-box in first alliterations of it, so it's just a matter of whether or not you want to update and take that ability away. Can't arrest someone for something sony did at the beginning.
Also sony is selling a homebrew game on their psn store anyway, so they can't care too much now can they?
http://www.nogravitythegame.com/psp/
As for "base.pbp" you can obtain that legally by buying any game from the PSN store.
And the emulator is built-in to the psp's firmware. The base file is just needed for the conversion.
I myself don't own any ps1 games anyway, so I've never tried it.
EDIT:  This post wasn't supposed to sound mean, but I just re-read it.
Edited by UrbanMonk
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RageBeef
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21/05/2010
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26th May, 2010 at 02:34:46 -
Based on your post you don't really have any means to obtain the game legitimately so your only way of getting CTR would be through homebrew/modding it. I have my PSP modded and I can say that because it's modded I have actually kept it around much longer than I would have an unmodded one.
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